New Chapters in the History of Rhetoric
Edited by
Laurent Pernot
BRILL
LEIDEN . BOSTON 2009
CONTENTS
Preface xi Laurent Pernot
Acknowledgements xv
PARTI
RHETORIC IN HISTORY 1. Theoretical Issues
L'histoire de la rhetorique dans l'Europe moderne 3 Marc Fumaroli
Rhetoriques particulaires et rhetoriques ondulatoires 17 Sung-Gi Jon
Aspects rhetoriques du discours historique 31 Donka Alexandrova
La rhetorique du simulacrum: analogies historiques 43 Andrei Rozhdestvenski
La traduccion como ej ercicio retorico y gramatical 53 Francisco Chico Rico
2. Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Power of Logos in Gorgias' Encomium of Helen 75 Nam-Duh Kim
Painting or Writing Speeches? Plato, Alcidamas, and
Isocrates on Logography 91 Marie-Pierre Noel
Transparency and Trust in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics 109 Harvey Yunis
Le discours du tribun Licinius Macer a la plebe
(Salluste, Histoires 3, 48 M = 3, 34 McGushin) 119 Martine Chassignet
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Cicero and the Sophists 137 Robert N. Gaines
Cicerone allegorico: la metamorfosi del personaggio storico in
paradigma dell'eloquenza romana 153 Gabriella Moretti
Deklamationen und Geschichtsschreibung im 4. Jh. n. Chr. 167 Gualtiero Calboli
Incest in Roman Declamation 197 Be Breij
L'harmonie du savoir: du modele rhetorique au modele
musical 215 Florence Malhomme
3. Modern and Contemporary Times
The History of Russian Rhetoric: Sources, Ideas, Authors 251 Vladimir I. Annushkin
La rhetorique militaire en Russie 261 Tcheslav Daletski
Henri III rheteur, nouvel Hercule gaulois 269 Claude La Charite
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ou les figures prises-au-propre 287 Nanine Charbonnel
The Merging of Civic Republicanism, Polite Culture, and Christianity in Hugh Blairs Lectures on Rhetoric and
Belles Lettres 303 Arthur E. Walzer
The Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: The Avant-garde Manifesto 311 P. M. Mehtonen
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PART II
RHETORIC AND RELIGION 1. The Problematic of Religious Discourse
The Rhetoric of Religion 327 Laurent Pernot
Caduta e ascesa di Religione e Retorica 347 Luigi Spina
La parole, la foi et la beaute : la Grece, Rome et le
christianisme medieval 361 Alain Michel
Rhetoricians in Black: Benedictine Monks and Rhetorical
Revival in Medieval Oxford 375 Martin Camargo
On Chinese Religious Rhetoric 385 Rudong Chen
The Expedient, the Honorable, and the Sacred: Rhetorical
Topoi and the Religious Imperative 401 Michael Lejjf
2. Speaking of the Gods, Speaking to the Gods
Les dieux chez les orateurs attiques 417 Michael Edwards
Gottesurteil - Beweismittel - Stilfigur. Funktion und
Stellenwert des Eides in der antiken Rhetorik 427 Manfred Kraus
Le "discours sacre" (hieros logos) : une forme de rhetorique
religieuse dans FAntiquite grecque 445 Mina Tasseva
L'influence de la legende bouddhique sur le roman de Barlaam et Josaphat: un cas de persuasion rhetorique
et religieuse 467 Heon Kim
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3. How to Read the Bible Rhetorically??
Rhetorique paulinienne et terminologie qoumranienne 485 Marc Philonenko
Pourquoi un Traite de rhetorique biblique*. 497 Roland Meynet
The Rhetorical Dispositio of 1 Cor. 11,2-16 and the
Problem of the Veil 507 Slawomir Torbus
Art oratoire et argumentation dans le Livre de Job 523 Velichko Rumenchev
Scriptural Elocutio in Seventeenth-Century England 537 Lawrence D. Green
4. Theory and Practice of Preaching La importancia de la pronuntiatio en la Retorica
eclesidstica (1576) de Fray Luis de Granada 551 Alfonso Martin Jimenez
Bunyans Progress and Glanvills Stand: Narration and Stasis
in Later Seventeenth-Century English Religious Discourse 565 Jameela Lares
"No Proper Subject:" Religion and Eloquence in Modern
Britain 575 Don Paul Abbott
Homiletik und Rhetorik: Hermann Herings Predigtlehre 585 Gregor Kalivoda
5. Religion and Political Discourse
"Theology of Liberation" and Its Tradition in Poland:
the Church, Politics, and Rhetoric in 1981-1989 599 Jakub Z. Lichanski
La question des rapports entre l'Eglise et l'Etat dans
la rhetorique parlementaire en Bulgarie 611 Lilia Metodieva
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Notes on Contributors 625 Indices (compiled by Luana Quattrocelli):
Index of Authors and Texts (from antiquity to the present) .... 641 Index of Scholars and Critics 646
